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A fact from Capex Corporation appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 March 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Optimizer by Capex Corporation brought memory and runtime savings to COBOL programs running on IBM mainframes?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Capex Corporation.

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 22:21, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Capex Corporation was a software company that focused on providing products for the dominant computing platform of its time, the IBM mainframe? Source: see fn 3 in article
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kilometer 101
- Comment: can also be viewed as a 5x expansion from its pre-redirected state

Converted from a redirect by Wasted Time R (talk). Self-nominated at 16:16, 18 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Capex Corporation; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

@Wasted Time R: @DigitalIceAge: New enough and long enough; QPQ present. Oh cool, a local company, and one I'd never heard of. I can't say I find the hook all that interesting, maybe because of the "was" phrasing (not common in hook); I will provide an ALT0a and ALT1 below. I do need a citation for the parenthetical (Computer Associates subsequently developed an additional product called CA-OPTIMIZER II for the OS/MVS operating system.) Weirdly, that parenthetical is flagging Earwig to some sort of presentation; can it be reworded, is it even germane? I also wonder if our long Business Journal quote "encountered the types of limitations that would encourage him and countless other engineers and technical people to venture off and start their own businesses" is warranted; we can surely say that in our own voice. Ping me when rectified. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:31, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- @Sammi Brie: Thanks very much for doing this review. I have added a cite for the CA Optimizer II parenthetical. That text dates to the old article, before it got redirected, which liked to point out what happened after the CA acquisition. I suspect that the Earwig hit you got was copying in the other direction, i.e. something that was taken from that old article, but just to be sure I have modified the wording somewhat. As for the long quote, I thought those authors said it better than I could in this instance. Wasted Time R (talk) 22:39, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Wasted Time R: That would make sense. Is there a cite for The most well-known of each of these were Optimizer, Capex's post-code generation phase object code optimizer for the IBM COBOL compiler, and AutoTab, an early batch spreadsheet program. ? I did a bit of reorganizing to improve the flow in that area, and that needs a cite. Otherwise it's ready. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:36, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    - @Sammi Brie: There isn't an explicit cite for that. Rather, it's the conclusion given by the relative weight of the available sources on the company and hence the relative amount of text in this article. Wasted Time R (talk) 13:51, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
      - @Wasted Time R: That's awfully WP:SYNTH-y to me. I also forgot to supply an ALT1: Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:26, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1: ... that the Optimizer by Capex Corporation brought memory and runtime savings to COBOL programs running on IBM mainframes?

@Sammi Brie: I disagree re the synth, but won't argue; I have reworked the text and that sentence is gone. Re ALT1, that's fine with me. Wasted Time R (talk) 11:33, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Everything looks good but someone else must review my ALT1. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:56, 10 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think the new hook is good. Onegreatjoke (talk) 00:08, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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